Typecasts In Exile: Orientation – The Swan
Typecasts In Exile: Movie Night at Cinderblock Cell 11
Currently in the eyeholes: The Sasquatch Gang (2006) Currently in the eyeholes: Hundreds of Beavers (2022) Currently in the eyeholes: Poolman (2023) “Things Change” -The Femme Fatale “Well, they shouldn’t” -The Detective The only typewriter in the trio of films is the late 60’s/early 70’s Smith Corona Golden Shield portable on which The Poolman writes […]
Typecasts In Exile: is it still NIMBYism when it’s not your back yard yet?
Heck yeah, I’d walk next door and grab one of them Apex Burgers now that they’ve cleaned up the joint! Oh hey look – a pre-installed outside camera included with the house! :D Wait a minute, why is there a camera pointed down the street? :O
Typecasts In Exile: The Future’s So Bright
Next door to CURRENT CANDIDATE is this sandwich shop, where I question the adequacy of the bathroom facilities, and am highly suspicious of the “Die or Dash” offering. Sounds very Squid Games… I will have Girl 1 consult the BONES over whether this may be a little* too* close to Stephen King Country…
Typecasts In Exile: The Wheelin’ & The Dealin’
You bastard! Soon I’ll be somewhere where your angle of exposure will be much more SEVERE and your power will be DIMINISHED! I SAVOR the potential of breaking your rule over my overheated SOUL! I shall CELEBRATE your WEAKENED VISAGE!
Typecasts In Exile: Rockin’ PDCs Out To Defend My Dream
Sorry for yet another Expanse reference – the show is just really speaking to me right now, everyone hanging in liminal space searching for a new safe home, fighting off the hostiles that threaten to break the fragile shell that protects you from OBLIVION. Maybe after I finish rewatching The Expanse, I might re-watch the […]
Typecasts In Exile: The Cruel Hands of FATE
Nope – The seller pulled some shady and possibly illegal shenanigans trying to influence the appraisal, and we dropped that one like a hot rock. Well, so much for my Basement Workshop – victim of the HANDS OF FATE.
Typecasts In Exile: Target Lock Acquired!
I did manage to get in a rewatch of the first 2 seasons of The Expanse while in exile. This show really benefits from being written & run by the same guys that first mapped the whole thing out as a tabletop RPG, then a series of novels. A rewatch increases the appreciation of the […]
Typecasts in Exile: I’ll Never Make That Mistake Again
Ok, so maybe the pink-eyed rats haven’t quite gotten back in all the trails…
Typecasts In Exile: Praise Jeebus, An Actual Typecast! Happy Caesar Salad Day! :D
1950 Smith Corona Skyriter #2Y 49871 in Key Snap’s Collection
Typecasts In Exile: Day 466 – Another In-Between
Today marks about a month trapped here in Cinderblock Cell #11, and with no success in home bidding, the girls have hatched a plan to lease a house in New England post haste. This is both to prevent us all from shriveling up and dying in this summer hellhole, but also to provide breathing room […]
Typecasts In Exile: Day 328 – Improvements in Sonic Environment
Well, not really a TYPECAST since I HAVE NO TYPEWRITER, so apologies for that deception but I liked the title so live with it, Dear Hearts, I beg. Trapped in the liminal NO-CHAMBER of cinderblock cell #11, cowering in the cool breeze of a wall unit condenser from the cruel jailer Sol outside, I tap […]
Report: Day 252 Without a Typewriter
…well, it feels like that, anyway. The Corral is packed in the POD, and I only held back a Siamese Dong Ah to give to Bill at MTE, and that was not satisfying to type on – writing meaningless squiggles on paper gets dull fast and the latter-day Seiko mechanism has the action of a […]
Mail Call: Canada Must Wait!
House Hunting: Packing Typewriters for Moving
Yeah, it’s totally a first-world problem: How does one safely pack half a hundred typewriters for moving across the country – but it’s important because we certainly don’t want any of our machines damaged in the trip. Even machines with form-fitting clamshell lids or are well-packed in padded cases need to be prepared for the […]
House Hunting: Another Missed Opportunity
I’ll just leave these photos of a basement wet bar right outta 1968 in memoriam of a house passed up because it gets 7 feet of snow a year. The girls think this old desert rat wouldn’t take it, but I don’t think I’d’a minded waiting out the snow in that basement so much. :D
Akai Samurai Confirms existence of Moskva Model 1 Portable Typewriter
This is a Guest Post from Typewriter Hunter “Akai Samurai” who has found evidence to confirm the existence of the Moskva Model 1, and forwarded this info for publication/reference and to justify a change to the Age List on TWDB. Enjoy! Recently I got a hold of a very rare typewriter – The Moskva Model […]
Mail Call: Mr. Jetz Getz His Mail In Before The Redline
Currently in the eyeholes: One of the lesser-known but still quite good Howard Hawks films…
House Hunting: Sadness Incarnate
Clearly an issue with the plumbing there, but that’s not difficult to fix.Such DISAPPOINTMENT IN MY SOUL!
Mail Call: TC Gets a Warning..
Mail Call: Prepare to Not Send Me Mail for a Little While…
Mail Call: A New Swizzle from EJT
Mail Call: Gunner is Relieved and Easy Replacement Corona 3 Feed Rolls
Mail Call: Chasing Sweet Catastrophe
Heh, this may be the first time that I’ve offered a typewriter to a Correspondent and been flat refused. I grok it, friend Butane is quite resistant to technological change. At least his handwriting is pretty good and consistent. (: Ahh, it turned out some Youtube channel just pirated the “Linotype” movie, which I already […]
Joining the Corona 3 Club!
At first, I thought the serial was 16832, mainly because “1912” was written on one of the swing arms of the machine, but then I noted that the segment wasn’t the early-style ball bearing type, so re-checked and found it was a 1918 model (168320). A couple years ago, I ordered a part for a […]
Mail Call: STM is in Speed Mode!
Mail Call: Manifesting a Letter from JVC by PURE WILLPOWER!
I had just commented on his Selectric 721 video that I was hoping one of the letters he was writing on Gandalf the Grey (the 10-pitch 721 that I gave to Kevin and Kevin passed on to Joe to be transplanted into his blue shell) was going to be headed my way, and it arrives […]
Fixing the Power Spacer and Tab Set/Clear keys on a Smith-Corona Galaxie 12
Weapon of Choice: 1976 Smith Corona Galaxie Twelve #6MLC 556348 H Allrighty, let’s see where we left off. Let’s get that cover off. These latter Galaxie 12’s are usually spotless inside, Nobody’s doused it in WD-40 or *anything*. The soundproofing panels are by now made of some non-shedding stuff, and probably were case queens after […]
Downsizing all over
Currently in the eyeholes: This seems relevant to the day: “Bust a deal, face the WHEEL!” -Aunty Entity
Memories of Trump
So, I was just loading the new AntiX 23.2 on my old 2003 Toshiba Portege M200, and as usual I re-check the vitals of the machine to ensure the label is still correct, and what do I find under the RAM stick door??? Just goes to show that you can ignore reality, but you can […]
Mail Call: The Simulation Stabilizes a Bit
“Four Eyes” by Correspondent GJK. I was only saddled with glasses after 40, and then only for close-up work, so my experience with them is mostly irritation at not having them when I need them. I suppose it’s quite different when you need them at a much younger age. Just another annoying variable in that […]
Mail Call: Two new letters and my new Stampers are Here! :D
Currently in the eyeholes: From a recently viewed Youtube video – I felt a strong urge to click off here because there’s something about tangled typebars in the background that just makes me squirm restlessly…
A Sonic Representation of the Electromagnetic Spectrum Around Me
So I found my little “Taiwan Telephone Pickup” that I had bought at Radio Shack in the 1990’s, an induction microphone at the end of a rubber sucker that you’d suction onto an oldschool telephone handset when you wanted to record a call. No respectable Crank Yanker would be without one back then, but being […]
Smith-Corona numbers normalized on TWDB
Well, since we’re pretty sure of which series started at 10k or 100k rather than 1 for the Smith-Corona portables past the Corona 4, it seemed silly to live with the “up to December” numbers that came from the sources, and which confused people anyway, so I have normalized most of them into Jan-Dec ranges […]